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Published: 2015-11-21 22:52:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 681; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 1
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The University Library (Egyetemi Könyvtár) of Eötvös Loránd Universiy in Budapest was founded in 1561 by the Jesuits and opened in 1876 to the public. It moved around a lot: the original Jesuit foundation was in Nagyszombat (Trnava, Slovakia) during the 17th century, before moving to Buda, and finally to Pest. The current buildings, in the neo-renaissance style, date to the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, like many in Pest, and were built in the 1870s. The collection contains 2'000'000 works, amongs them very ancient ones (including a fragment from the 8th century).The University itself was named after Baron Lórand Eötvös, an Austro-Hungarian physicist who worked with gravitation and torsion balance. It produced five Nobel Prize winners:
- Philipp Lenard (Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard) (1905), for research on cathode rays, a man discredited for his active support of Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism;
- Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt (Nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert) (1937), who discovered Vitamin C;
- George de Hevesy (Hevesy Györgyi) (1943) for the discovery of hafnium and the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical proceses in animal metabolism;
- Georg von Békésy (Békésy György) (1961) for the function of the choclea in the mammalian hearing organ;
- John Charles Harsanyi (Harsányi János Károly) (1994), for research on the application of game theory to economicsand on utilitarian ethics;
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Four Nobel Prize winners? Thats quite good! I am not sure if Warsaw University has such a good record 
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Five, actually. I forgot to ammend that once I found out about the one less fashionable to mention.
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